[Sheflug] Re: Booting from CD on Toshiba laptop

[Richard Ibbotson <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

Baz

> However, I've been unable to boot my Debian Potato CD on the
> machine.

I've had a lot of problems with non-bootable Debian CDs.  Two years 
of it :)  Don't ask me why I just don't know.

You shouldn't be having problems with Toshiba hardware.  It works 
with just about anything.  If it doesn't work with a Red Hat or an 
SuSE CD then it might just be a hardware problem.  Sounds more like 
an IRQ /  DMA address problem though. 

There's a lot of second user Toshibas out there that work very well.  
IBM stinkpads as well.  Maybe another one ?

My own second user notebook was something of a lucky dip.  For once I 
did get lucky.  USB works fine - haven't tried a web cam on it yet.  
Irda is good.  Sound could be better.  Works very well with a PCMCIA 
network card.

You didn't put MS Windows into it did you ?  Shame on you.  

Thanks


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Richard

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